it's revealed french authorities warned of the dangers of using military grade gas grenades against demonstrators crowd control devices caused horrific injuries to protesters. boeing is to suspend making its notorious 737 max jets from january as regulators keep the flight ban going after 2 fatal crashes claimed hundreds of lives. and the u.s. family entertainment t.v. channel is caught in the crossfire after it apologizes for dropping an l g b t themed commercial we get reaction. this is just a handful but sort. women who love each other and christmas is all about love and

coming together i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them but i want i don't really want it to come in the form of a christmas commercial. this is artie from moscow. with your world news this hour 1st. after a series of horrific injuries against protesters it's come to light that the french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against demonstrators as far back as january last year also text the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks of its grenade to being used by riot police. the blast the fact of the devices produced by an explosive substance are likely to maim or mortally injured an individual well those with intense sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage. the resumption of production is impossible without completely reviewing the

production process. in the league letter published by the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warns the defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved france is the only country where riot police use this kind of weapon and despite the warnings it's still used by riot police and it's also been known to explode if it gets picked up the gas craters caused injuries among yellow vests protesters 5 of whom have lost hands a woman also died after she was hit by one of the demo we must say last year be aware that you're about to see someone who suffered a severe injury as a result of that weapon being used in a protest. the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg and tried to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction. of the. people

i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been targeted and we want the truth and justice. i will try to fight against the use of july for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns. another french journalist we've been speaking to thinks the government's using the grenade deliberately as a terror and. but you mustn't forget the use of the trash small rubber bullets during these a demonstration some of which have led to several people losing a knife more than 20. per year remember we must see that there's no

political will to stop this madness in my opinion it is very cynical but if they do it on purpose they want to dissuade people from the most raging and from showing their anger and during this yellow vests protest that he prevented lee for instance arresting people because they were carrying swimming classes in order to protect their their eyes from chill gas which is where your true bitching most ration wide preventing it from being massive meantime mass industrial action in france has entered its 3rd week with transport workers causing severe disruption to road and rail systems nationwide since the beginning of this month public sector employees have been protesting angrily against the government pension reform plans sometimes violently.

it's a strike that paralyzed much of paris and further beyond and now it's into its 3rd week initially it was called by public transport workers over planned changes to the pension system here in france now this strike has grown in stature and support and the malays hey it is much more than just about pensions as unions are calling for another day of mass demonstrations the rail and metro workers are being joined one school by teachers by. firefighters and health workers tens of thousands are expected to protest on tuesday but perhaps the stalkers warning some of the problems that drugs is facing have come from medical staff 600

hospital doctors have threatened to quit unless the government injects money into the health system the doctors warn that budget cuts alone with bed closures and staff shortages are tipping the health system over the edge and it's close to collapse $1.00 health worker has told us that it's putting lives at risk. in particular we as health care professionals want to be able to continue to do our job the way we were targeted and the way we want to without any discrimination of our interests which has become systemic we don't have the equipment but it's not our fault that we are understaffed but that's not our fault either my work in hospital this is one of our patients died almost here because simply because we don't have enough stuff to take care of everyone that was a year ago but nothing has changed since then strikes have been ongoing in the

health sector since march last month the president might call in pledged more hospital funding i'm debating this is the 1st stuff but that was rejected by the doctors groups is no what doing enough meanwhile the government is poised to push ahead with its reform agenda particularly with that quote universal pension reform despite the continued opposition on the streets as tens of thousands demand an immediate work to well get a further blow to the president not going to see the country's minister for pension reform quite. live was the high commissioner for pensions was one of michael's most trusted allies he resigned not just. over the pensions for all but all through to emerged that he had failed to declare more than a dozen posts that he'd held in addition to his cabinet job and that corn and his government remain locked in a standoff with the unions and neither side seems willing to budge so that people

ski. in paris and it's probably not all over the us even more demonstrations against pension reforms are expected later today in paris and he just turned 9 am now but when anything does change it will of course be across it here at r.t. international. go between a rock and a hard place american family friendly hallmark t.v. channels apologized for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple and their promise to create more inclusive content the company division which operates the network says it's been a tough call all round. the crown media team has been agonizing over this decision as we've seen the hurt is has unintentionally caused our mission is rooted in helping all people connect so a break traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives we are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused the move comes after the channel pulled them out of the for

a wedding planning website that featured a gay couple getting married and that sparked a complaint. do you think so although could have made planning your perfect wedding easier we do. we want to be in couples planning registry and invitations against our in for free it's only dot com that spurred a petition by the christian conservative group 1000000 moms called on hallmarked to not show any l g b t friendly content on the channel claiming that it went against the values of its target audience however the removal of the ad caused a backlash on social media as well and channel executives change their minds kevin owen spoke to human rights activist peter tatchell radio commentator gina luton about the route. this was just a hand for that sort to include women who love each other and that is a fact of life and christmas is all about love and coming together you know i can understand what the fuss is about you know if i saw a card or a verse or anything with a man or woman kissing i think beautiful wonderful i love it they were viewers they

were watching it they were thinking hey you know if i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas commercial and that to some people is understandable i mean doesn't mean that they were necessarily bigoted or that this was in any way anti-gay it might just be that they wanted to be the ones to have that conversation with their 5 year old is there any reason why a channel which describes itself as family friendly and shows 1st 2 shows this year it once and children and families together on the t.v. popcorn and watch is there a reason to describe themselves as that they should take a bit more care not to offend people that may be offended most young kids get it when they see 2 people or a lot of young kids don't think you know man woman boy girl that they think of love and these were about love not about 6 about love and i would have thought in

a modern mature democracy we were better to celebrate love in its many for. is this the time of year where we want to be making political statements during you know what is a holiday season where we sitting around the fire with our families you know having having a good time and maybe not thinking so much about l g b t or even abortion or other things that might be more of a political statements almost apologise for pulling we didn't need to apologize i think they did yes because it's quite offensive to say that you know an image of 2 women in love is somehow not fit and proper for a broadcast channel in this day and age. by putting the ad that was a deep insult an assertive rejection of the many same sex couples who do love each other and love each other just as much as any husband or wife you get pushback that

is from a political action group be it conservative or liberal what you're really getting is a falsely inflated political pushback from people that aren't necessarily your viewers when you hear the pushback initially from the viewers saying you know hey we're we're moms we're watching your network and we don't want this on their my guess is that the majority of that was probably organic. indonesia is suing the european union for its decision to stop using palm oil based biofuels e.u. wants to get member states to phase in eco friendly fuels instead but indonesia which is the world's largest palm oil producer suspects the moves more about trade rivalry than saving the planet and explains. palm oil it's in everything thousands of our everyday products from chocolate to shampoo and cleaning products without even thinking about it we consume on average around 8 kilos of it each year and denise is the largest palm oil exporter in the world and within the world trade

organization has been selling palm oil to some big clients for years for example the e.u. on very good terms but it's in the last couple of years the e.u. decided to fight such heavy pommel consumption in an effort to be greener and more sustainable and after threatening the e.u. with countless functions indonesia has now taken legal action against the european union alleging discrimination against indonesian palm oil exports with a lawsuit indonesia hopes the e.u. will promptly change its read to policy and delegated act as well as scrap the high risk in direct land use change status it has given to palm oil for jakarta the stakes are high is heavily reliant on palm oil production as one of its key industries with over 2000000 indonesians directly employed by the industry and many more gaining from indirect economic benefits in the last few years there's been a wind of change with the e.u.'s new focus on emphasizing

a greener more eco conscious position and as a result earlier this year the e.u. began to turn its back on this cheap and versatile products with plans to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuels by the end of 2030 and just last week the bloc imposed a 5 year tariffs on bio diesel from the southeast asian nation to counter alleged subsidies to producers in the country have asked after a complaint from process that subsidized exports of indonesian bio diesel to the e.u. are causing a threat to material injury to the union industry indonesia's vice foreign minister accuses the e.u. of following a protectionist policy and a sign of further deepening trade tensions. neighboring malaysia the world's number 2 in palm oil production is mulling taking the same action and they're all signs that asia's 2 dominant pommelled produces may be heading for a clash with the e.u. and the international court of justice with suggestions that the new stance on palm

oil might have something to do with competition in the edible oil business rather than pure ecological concerns. this is i'll say still ahead boeing says it's suspending production of itself 80737 max jets we'll tell you why and 90 seconds. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i.m.f. in this case versus bitcoin then you argentina that's why we're here. again the world's largest aerospace company america's boeing says it's going to suspend production of its ill fated 737 max jet from january it's because

regulators say they won't lift the flight ban on the plane anytime soon. we know that the process of approving the 737 mike has returned to service must be extraordinarily thorough and robust to ensure that our regulators customers and the fine public have confidence in this 737 max updates we have decided to prioritize the delivery of stored aircraft and temporarily suspend production of the some $37.00 program beginning next month but we didn't specify how long that shutdown is going to be the 737 max has been grounded globally since march after nearly 350 people died in 2 separate crashes in ethiopia and indonesia in the space of 5 months.

merrick has been hearing from a former official from the us national transportation safety board. is here story i mean this is this is something that has been the nightmare that boeing has been trying to avoid the entire time this is what they've had this p.r. campaign going on the entire time to keep their investors calm dell in settled like all get through this story were theirs and so forth but but right now the investors have had enough they're very frustrated with boeing and they've had enough in the stocks took a 4 percent hit today during the day it is what down another percent so after hours

so let's try. understand what this means right 1 from a rudimentary level it means this plane is an absolute unmitigated failure it's going the way of the absolute it is as a good comparison actually quite honestly it is one of those things that once it gets a bad reputation and they have not done anything to help themselves but this thing has a bad reputation now that the other american the traveling public is not wanting to fly it even if they give the thing some sort of fight and they get it up in the air and it's going again within the airlines even the public is trying to opt out of having to fly on this plane and you mentioned earlier when we were 1st talking about this that there's a lot of little guys that are going to get hit by the absolutes not the big guys are going to keep working at boeing little guys the vendors. there's about $12000.00 employees at boeing they're going to be affected by this but they're not going to furlough or fire any of those folks are not good for right now they're going to be moved around within within the company now with that i mean there's only so long that even a company of size of boeing can be carrying $12000.00 extra employees that are kind

of a ship who have nothing to do right now now ship that over to the smaller people the smaller suppliers that supply other parts of players for these aircraft that are not just in the u.s. but around the world they don't have those deep pockets the boeing has they don't have the financial cushion that boeing has so you're talking about it economic head this is an economic story that's going to affect a lot of working people in america it's going to it's not just the working people to it's they're going to delay purchases they're going to. draw in their you know their budget strings and they're going to be. not buying new cars they're not going to be buying a lot of meals outside of the home they're going to be really tightening their their strings economic stories in person and making sure that they're they can get through this period when you rush a situation when you rush a product out on the market before it's ready. you always run into trouble that's why we have regulators and regulations right which is has its own problems this is

the last few weeks. india's braced for a 6th day of unrest against a new citizenship law which many protesters consider to be discriminatory towards muslims demonstrations are now spread to $36.00 universities across the country. i were. or oz. 7 i was. the biggest protests erupted in the border states where people fear an influx of illegal immigrants it was the capital seen the authorities used tear gas to disperse crowds that india's supreme court plans to investigate the alleged use of excessive force by police against students in new delhi the law in question would offer a fast track citizenship for migrants from some neighboring muslim majority

countries however the list excludes muslim migrants themselves the indian government insists it's in no way discriminatory prime minister narendra modi says the law is intended to give respect to those who fled to india and were forced to live as refugees. well there is some of the reaction that we've been getting from new delhi. the b.g.p. government under modi and dance to set up detention centers and so all these people especially in the muslims in those attention centers around it comes to of the size of the population muslims to constitute for the in boston of the population we don't even own a muslim problem most in the presentation in the parliament and you don't have to get into muslims and traditional community into the balance between the weakest actually no this is the ideal whoever doesn't understand then i don't need to be out in the country and that cannot be nice in europe was a secular nation the opposition comes from the last just a part of this will allow them to accept

a lot it's not this india. which is against the accord state that is where your position to fill they were all religions all all jail you know all sexuality this bill is against it is against the federal structure it's a go it's the autonomy's region the people that does write this book this is such a big group that it is my belief as the belief of many of the people that this act is unconstitutional and against the constitution of. second surging the iraqi government to take action to prevent attacks on bases housing u.s. military personnel there's been a spate of rocket strikes on the facilities in recent weeks here's what a u.s. military spokesman told us. i can confirm the phone call between secretary esper and prime minister mahdi on the cole secretary esper reiterated united states support for a secure and sovereign iraq and the people of iraq he also called on our iraqi partners to continue to assist in preventing attacks on u.s.

and coalition person know and facilities in the country since october there have been 10 attacks on military bases in iraq where u.s. coalition forces are stationed no one's claimed those attacks but washington blames iranian backed forces in iraq u.s. journalist nicholas davis says it's time for american troops to leave. well this one very obvious solution which is for the u.s. to withdraw as in syria you know the u.s. involvement in. these countries is just huge really problematic hugely destabilizing for those countries and you know just creating constant flashpoints and constant resentment from. the people of iraq and the people of syria 5 or 6000 troops still in iraq mostly at the last airbase the 11 of the ones recently. fired on one

has to wonder why the u.s. still. believes there is some purpose in keeping all these forces in that region when you know all they seem to do is more trouble. whether it's tuesday demonstrators holding a sit in outside the army's headquarters in the capital khartoum the rest was 1st triggered very dear ago by a tripling of bread prices and led to the ousting of president omar al bashir he was sentenced because option last week. hundreds of rallies in the colombian capital bogota against proposed tax reforms they also can do. in the regime of president ivan to kate if they play for rampant corruption growing unemployment in the routine killing of indigenous citizens demonstrations began in late november with a series of massive anti-government protests across colombia. so the pictures now

one of 2 russian fighter jets being put through their paces over the frozen the far east of the country the pilots push their aircraft to the limits in high speed aerobatic maneuvers the training is designed to help them post their skills and withstand extreme forces in combat situations. rather than the me only because the reports on the air are today also which i'll be back to update you on the stories we're across in moscow.

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i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report we're getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i.m.f. in this case versus bitcoin the venue argentina that's why we're here we're here now we're witnessing historic epic proportion of it yes of course when we booked to come here the currency crisis was not in such a full swing now it is we have a new president elect here and he has turned down the last $11000000000.00 payment from the i.m.f. but i just want to say on our observations i'm here with the national color here i look i feel like i look like lionel messi gomez 6 gold balls must be heavy. i have been a little bit surprised about how. how would you say posh. hours and hours of walking across the city and all sort of directions that it feels probably even more

prosperous and living in paris being in paris it is kind of odd to see this situation and i think part of it is that they're so used to currency crises here that it's almost like they're so prepared for it that when it comes it's like oh great everything's discounted for us all the argentinians are resourceful people you can't take away their dignity and that's what they have and it's based on a fantastic culture a fantastic people the here and one desirous of meeting so many fantastic people and the cultural depth is extraordinary unlike the u.s. where the there really is no culture other than hollywood here you have hundreds and hundreds of years thousands years of culture you've got the influence of folks coming from all over the world principally italian and it's just fantastic and you know what we're seeing here is a resilience to the overlords from the central banks like the i.m.f. and for the 1st time in history a country like argentina has

a weapon to fight the carpet baggers at the i.m.f. the charlatans like christine.